76 – Ice castle collapsing (3)
War between seeker guilds.
Only the association can intervene in this.
This is because the association replaces the role of the government in areas close to the northern front.
So the government could not express any position on this war.
In the association, opinions were divided.
Because Baek So-ah’s forces made it clear that the war was permitted, other forces with weak powers had no choice but to obey without much disagreement.
Well, the words are war, but in fact, it can be seen as a kind of power struggle. They beat each other in an abandoned city, out of harm’s way to civilians and other seekers.
In addition.
Wars between guilds have relatively few casualties.
This was because a guild that lost a war would naturally go through the process of being merged into the other guild, so indiscriminately killing or maiming guild members, a valuable resource, was avoided.
Even if the Freezing Guild and the Goguryeo Guild were dog-won friends, casualties would be much less likely to occur as it was the yard where the officials of the Freezing Guild were conciliated in advance.
And at the same time I am a student.
Because they are not affiliated with any guild, they do not participate in the war.
That doesn’t mean I’m not going to put my hands down and do nothing.
Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the war.
I was planning to unite with Kim Soo-han and wipe out the Liberation guys hiding like rats.
‘They’ll say, ‘What kind of rice cake is this?’
If a large guild collapses.
That’s because it will come as a benefit to Liberation.
Anyway.
The war was decided in a week, so there was still time.
‘···Since there is quite a bit left until the appointment time, shall we browse the Internet?’
Now I am also collecting information.
I decided to check the Internet reaction on my cell phone while lying down in my room.
There are two reactions to check.
People’s evaluation of the Hero Academy practice video uploaded a while ago. And it was a reaction to the declaration of war.
I first accessed the Hero Academy website.
Without hiring a separate web designer.
Instructor Tak Jae-hwan made the site by self-study, so the design was extremely simple.
‘You said there were a lot of comments. Where···.’
At the top of the home page.
Clicked on the hands-on video menu next to the student profile.
The practice video is Hapi Island and Tengu Island.
Two unedited copies were uploaded.
‘… The number of comments has increased five times compared to the last time.’
I was very interested in the institution called the academy. Most of them must be citizens living in safe areas.
‘I’ll have to sort them in order of recommendation.’
I checked the comments.
(9,999+)
┗ Much better than Daehan Academy. There, the teaching assistants followed me around, so it was f*cking crazy.
┗ Baek So-ah and Cha Yu-ra fight well. Is it because you were at the top of the rankings in the previous academy?
┗You seem to be good at dividing roles. I’m going to have a good look.
┗Isn’t Tengu the top 3 stars? Why are there so many boss level monsters in normal dungeons? This is a semi-special level dungeon. It can’t be compared to a level 1 dungeon.
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┗Hyeonseong Lee’s performance is outstanding… I hope Hyunseong-kun doesn’t care about bad comments and just works as hard as he is now… Many people are always cheering for you…
┗ hahahaha. If I had gone, I would have cut 5 minutes to the boss and left.
┗What does Hyunseong Lee do? Summon only summons and do nothing?
┗The summoner then only summons the summons, will he go out and fight? Are you a sick bastard?
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┗ Personally, I think the Hero Academy practice method is better than Daehan Academy. (For reference, I am a super explorer)
┗Youngji Kim.
┗Lee Hyun-seong I want to eat.
┗Academy here accepts even if it’s not 5 cost? Shall I apply for the 2nd term too?
‘Let’s see this far for now.’
The result of looking at about a thousand comments.
I didn’t think the reaction was too bad.
There are still malicious comments running steadily on my personal profile, but now the ratio of malicious comments is only about 50%, so I feel proud.
‘Come to think of it, I think he said he had a fan club of some sort.’
After moving to the search site.
When I searched for my name, I was able to find the fan club right away.
For reference, it was a real-name cafe.
‘The name of the fan club president is… Park Dae-moon?’
It was the name of Sergeant Park, the second son of the guild leader of the Goguryeo guild. What is this kid doing?
I didn’t bother to check the post.
All of the titles shriveled up, so the desire to see them completely disappeared.
In the list of related cafes, there were also a kkaebi fan club and an iron rice bowl fan club.
It’s the first time I’ve seen a minion fan club again.
Did you make it after hearing your name being called in the video?
Look.
Kaebi fan club has 3,000 members.
The Iron Rice Bowl fan club had 8,000 members.
What’s so many…
─Strive up. Dumpy.
─Profit…!
When the iron rice bowl, who was watching from the side, smirked, the kkaebi made an angry expression.
‘There is also a Devil fan club. The number of members is thirty. The real Internet is full of people with nothing to do.’
I looked at the devil once.
He is lying on the floor with his hands behind his back and eating food from a bowl of dog food.
I really wondered why there was a fan club for something like that.
Shaking his head.
Next, we briefly looked at the reaction to the war between large guilds.
┗ Will the 3 major guild system finally collapse? How long did you keep it
┗ Cheer for the Goguryeo Guild!!! The freezing guild is no different from a group of f*cking criminals, so I don’t feel like it. May you soon perish.
┗ Still, compared to the Sky Guild, the Ice Guild is a fairy.
┗ Wow. I’m really looking forward to it lol It would be nice if you could broadcast the war live.
You talk like it’s a foreign country.
The main reaction was to regard war as a kind of play.
Well, in a way, it was a reasonable response.
People who live on the Internet all day are mostly people in a safe area whose daily life is boring and boring, so they want something more stimulating.
‘I’m not alert.’
As long as there is no harm to them.
The fact that even war is treated as entertainment came to me very bitterly.
‘…There’s no big difference between gods and humans.’
I swallowed a laugh and stood up.
I’m going to stop looking at my cell phone now.
After putting on the jacket.
I put on my hat and finished getting ready to go out.
‘Even though I had quite a bit of time left until the appointment time…. Let’s just go first. Better than being late.’
I also made an appointment with my close friend Kim Soo-han, but not today. Because Kim Soo-han is scheduled to meet with the Freezing Guild officials today.
Today was a meeting with a new company that spawns our academy and developed a summoning artifact amulet. Iron Rice Bowl said there was an artifact he wanted to develop, so I asked him to rent the Artifact Lab, and he readily accepted.
‘The owner’s name was Baek Chi-yul. They said the names are somehow similar.’
It is not a direct meeting with the president.
Because you said you were sending your son.
And the son knew me very well.
‘It’s been a while.’
After getting ready, I left the room.
***
I ran into Cha Yoo-ra in the hallway on the second floor.
It looks like he took a short walk.
Safety is secured thanks to the four guardians stationed nearby.
‘The expression is still a bit dark.’
The cause was what Cha Byeong-ho said.
Not sure.
There was a high probability that Cha Yoo-ra’s mother was murder disguised as an accident, not just a car accident. That, too, was a murder instigated by none other than her, her own father.
Because of this, Cha Yoo-ra was in a very disturbed state of mind.
“… Ah.”
Cha Yoo-ra, who found me belatedly, greeted me in a weak voice.
“Hyeonseong-ah, hello. Good morning…”
“Yes.”
It’s lunchtime.
She decided not to bother.
After greeting her, Cha Yoo-ra inserted her key to enter her room.
‘Still, I’m glad you’re much better than yesterday. Good job catching cockroaches from outside.’
I’m a little late.
We obtained Cha Yu-ra’s consent to destroy the Freezing Guild.
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In the first place, since it was a guild that didn’t have even the slightest bit of affection attached to it, I expected them to agree.
However,
I didn’t expect her to say that she wanted to get rid of the Freezing Guild herself. Probably because she realized the truth about her mother’s death.
I fully understand how you feel.
So I asked the Goguryeo guild for their understanding.
If Cha Byeong-ho was defeated, he decided to face Cha Yoo-ra once.
When the time came, Cha Yoo-ra asked me how he should behave.
My answer was simple.
Take care of yourself.
It’s not a life determined by others.
If you want to live the life you want, don’t be swayed by someone else’s words and act according to your will and judgment. The answer to life is not fixed, so believe in your own decision.
Whatever you choose.
I even added that I would support that choice, and Cha Yu-ra’s face brightened for a moment.
‘I hope I can make a decision that I’m satisfied with.’
After confirming that Cha Yura had entered her room, I walked down the hallway again.
At that time, a loud sound leaked from Kim Young-ji’s room.
‘What is it?’
I stopped in front of her room for a while.
‘Are you holding the ancestral rites I mentioned last time?’
Coming to think of it, I think he said that he holds a ancestral rite for his father once a week.
We also asked for your understanding in advance.
I ask for your understanding, since the ancestral rites are held in a rather unique way, so it can be noisy.
But I didn’t expect it to be this much turbulent.
If you installed the soundproofing artifact and the sound leaks out, that’s all I said.
‘Kim Young-ji seems to have something…’
The devil told me this.
When I first met Kim Young-ji.
She said she felt an aura similar to that of the demon lord of greed, though it was slight.
‘The devil said he was the devil of lust in his previous life. So she said that she had met other demon lords…’
At first I thought it was a bluff.
I asked a lot of questions, but he only tilted his head without answering with a stupid expression on his face.
But it was the truth guaranteed by the iron rice bowl.
Anyway, it seemed that the soul was not created anew in the encyclopedia, but rather the concept of reincarnation.
Perhaps because Devil is 5 cost.
Or maybe it was just a special case, but it seemed like he could recall a little bit of his previous life.
‘And I’m also concerned about the smell that Kaebi smells like.’
Kaebi speaks in detail.
In Cheon Gong Island, they kept their distance because of the catnip perfume, but in the back room, it was said that it was because of the monster smell, not the catnip perfume.
The iron rice cooker who was listening by the side suggested that Youngji Kim was conscious of that time and covered up the smell with a stimulating perfume, but…
‘Although Kim Young-ji is the king of greed, the demon king went too far.’
Dojin Dojin iron rice bowl secretly scanned Kim Young-ji, but the result was obvious.
Iron Rice Bowl determined that Kim Young-ji was a certain human race.
All demon kings are devils, that is, monsters.
Detecting monsters is a rice bowl’s specialty, but there was no way I could have made a mistake.
Just in case I didn’t know, I scanned it several times, but the result was that I was still human.
The smell of monsters that Kkaebi smelled.
The smell of an ancient parasitic monster could have been transferred.
‘I was convinced that the rice bowl was human too, and I cleared my doubts, but…’
Still, Kim Young-ji decided to keep an eye on it.
Because he must be hiding something.
Kim Young-ji After confirming that the noise leaking from the room had stopped, I left the mansion.
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Kikiiik-
The door to Room 206 opened slowly.
“Have you gone?”
Through the small crack in the door.
Kim Young-ji stuck her head out and checked her hallway left and right.
“The sound must have been too loud.”
After making sure no one was there.
Youngji Kim moved her gaze to the inside of her room and spoke in an annoyed voice.
“I told you to eat quietly, Dad.”
─I’m sorry…
“Whoa. I installed several blocking artifacts to avoid being caught by Bobcat, but I almost got caught because of the noise.”
─I’m sorry…
“Okay. Eat some rice.”
Kikiiik-
The door to Room 206 closed slowly.
And.
Took.
Use the barrier.
Seo Han-bit, who was hanging from the ceiling and playing detective, landed lightly on the floor of the hallway.
“·······.”
Seo Han-bit went into his room without a word from her.
***
I have arrived at the appointed place.
I was bruised because I arrived 30 minutes early.
From far away.
A man presumed to be the president’s son came running to me waving his hand.
“Hyeonseong-ah!”
Familiar faces and voices.
The president’s son was Baek Chi-yeol.